I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this. I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want.

Mr. Schmidt shouldn't take Mr. Ellison's attacks too personally, though. Mr. Ellison -- like Mr. Jobs -- has long looked to use verbal attacks for a variety of purposes from devaluing potential acquisitions to trying to sway public opinion in federal court cases.

Oracle has lost cases to both Google and HP related to its 2010 acquisition, Sun Microsystems. These legal battles have provoked emotion rants from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
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But as with Google, his words may just have been sour grapes. In the end HP triumphed over Oracle, proving in federal court that Oracle had breached its contract. In the aftermath Oracle eventually gave up, agreeing in September 2012 to continue support for Itanium -- slow servers and all.

A final thing worth noting -- the HP and Google cases are somewhat tied to each other, as both involve Oracle's 2010 acquisition Sun Microsystems, who makes both a rival to Itanium servers (Solaris) and who makes a quasi-open platform (Java) which Google's Android is in part built upon. In the wake of these losses Mr. Ellison may be more than a little bit frustrated that his $7.4B USD acquisition has failed to pay off amidst these high profile court losses.